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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. OceanBase

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Well established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Actian CorporationOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release201520051974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20142010
Current release7.0.0, September 202311.2, May 20224.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infosince Version 4.2no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyesView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationIngres ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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